There are very few good things about having a commute to work every day. Dev podcasts is one of them. You can learn something new, keep up with the latest and greatest and even in some cases be entertained (looking at you Soft Skills Engineering!). Here my list of top 10 podcasts I listen to today in no particular order.*
*I subscribe to way more podcasts than this, but in the spirit of brevity I am cutting the list to 10.
Shoptalk Show
Dave Rupert, Chris Coyier
Front end focused show about design and development of modern websites. Dave and Chris are always worth listening whether they have a guests or not. In fact, their "rapid fire" episodes where they answer questions of their listeners are one of my favorites.
The React Podcast
Chantastic, Michael Jackson
You can probably guess what this show is about. That's right, it is about VueJS (jk). Chantastic and Michael does a great job talking to a wide variety of guests directly or tangentially related to React ecosystem. In fact, they recently did a great episode with React core team about its future. It is a must for those of us who are in React world!
Track Changes
Paul Ford, Rich Ziade
Not strictly speaking development podcasts, however, it is one of my favorites. Paul (of What is Code fame) and Rich are co-founders of Postlight digital product studio in NYC. Their musings about current state of technology, weird rants about social media and ever so interesting guests makes it a delight to listen.
.NET Rocks
Carl Franklin, Richard Campbell
If you are in JS ecosystem, do not be put off by the title of the podcast. It is one of the longest running shows in town, focusing on all sides of technology. It can be a little Microsoft centric in terms of guests but it always delivers high quality content, great conversations and "geekouts" which delve deeply in a topic that expand your horizons. Carl and Richard are pros at what they do and other podcasts have a lot to learn from them.
The Changelog
Adam Stacoviak, Jerod Santo
What makes Changelog special is high production quality and excellent guests. Focusing mostly on Open Source, Adam and Jerod delivers every time. If you want to be in the know of what is going on in the industry I think this is a great way to do so. One of the recent episodes with Dominic Tarr (event-stream incident for those who do not know) was excellent.
Syntax
Scott Tolinski, Wes Bos
This is one of the youngest podcasts in the list. Scott and Wes covers JS ecosystem and latest and greatest technologies, frameworks, libraries, you name it. If you are familiar with their courses, you can expect the same quality work in this podcasts (watch out for those sick sponsor transitions by Scott).
Darknet Diaries
Jack Rhysider
Story driven podcast that dives into the "dark" side of tech. Jack delivers a great insight into data breaches, hacks and other malicious actors and actions of the cyber space. It is a great little gem of a podcast that I discovered fairly recently.
JS Party
Suz Hinton, Kevin Ball, Jerod Santo, Christopher Hiller, Safia Abdalla, others
Second entry from the Changelog family. JS Party is JS centric (duh!) podcast covering a lot of new and more mature technology. Show hosts are great and provide a good variety of opinions.
Front End Happy Hour
Ryan Burgess, Stacy London, Jem Young, Augustus Yuan
While Front End is in the name, hosts cover a lot more topics than that. There is a good balance of opinions and excellent guests. You get the feeling that hosts do come with a lot of experience in the industry and valuable insights.
Soft Skills Engineering
Dave Smith, Jamison Dance
This podcast is a delight, especially when jokes do not land that well, it still makes you giggle. Dave and Jamison focus on other aspects of development (salary negations, navigating company culture, dealing with coworkers and bosses, etc). Write-in questions give you an insight into how other companies operate and what other developers have troubles with.
That is it folks! There are many more, but if you are new to podcasting, these are great to start with!
Share your favorites below!
Top comments (31)
Thanks for including The Changelog and JS Party! 🎉
If you like those, there’s a non-zero chance you’ll appreciate most of the stuff we publish. That’s why we have a master feed. ✊️
Thanks Jerod! And thanks for the hard work on Changelog stuff!
Great list of shows, looks like I need to add a couple to qit
Also, I've got to throw Coding Blocks out there. It's my favorite...but I'm quite biased. ;)
Adding it to my pod catcher, I am always looking for new stuff :)
I'm biased towards The .NET Core Podcast for much the same reasons, I think
Is it bad form to plug myself here?
I just launched devpath.fm
As a dev podcast addict and maintainer of a dev podcast search engine, I appreciate it very much!
Subbed and ticketed!
I have a great podcast too, geared toward new self-taught developers (a demograph that is often overlooked in podcast topics). It's called La Vie en Code, and it's on Spotify/Apple Podcasts/Google Podcasts/Soundcloud/Stitcher. :)
Also, you can take a look at the episodes and notes here: lavieencode.net/podcast
nice list but no base cs!?
ahh, it almost made it! I think it is super for some passive learning on cs fundamentals!
Command Line Heroes should also get an honorary mention for presenting the fundamentals of OS culture in such a fun way, tbh!
I feel kinda bad jumping on this thread :-), but when you've got 70+ episodes of your own podcast, and it's not in the list, you can't be held responsible for your actions! I just posted our most recent episode of Mobycast here on DEV.to: dev.to/jonxtensen/growth-hacking-f...
Our formula is no guest interviews so that we can get deep on topics and have show-to-show consistency. We talk a lot about the realities of building and operating software in the cloud and cover stuff that doesn't get talked about in online classes.
Great list 😍
For python developers, I would suggest Talk python to me which is a really good show focused on the python changes, ecosystem and the people behind it. What I love most about this show is it is well informative, calm and nicely organized.
I totally agree, I listen to it occasionally too, even if I am not doing any python at the moment. Quality guests makes that show for sure.
Is it too late to plug my own modest contribution? I host the devjourney podcast, where I highlight the diversity of journeys into tech. And we just passed the 100 episodes mark 🥳
Full Stack Baby...
Don't forget Full Stack Radio by Adam Wathan, one of the best podcasts out there IMO — solid contributor, vast breadth of topics and a good cohesive relationship among all episodes.
fullstackradio.com
Two more I really like: